April 19, 2007

Revisiting the HIV Travel Ban

Public health experts and AIDS advocates met in Washington, DC, last week to discuss ways to ease or even overturn the ban on HIV positive foreign visitors to the U.S. that Congress passed into law in 1993. The discussion followed President Bush’s World AIDS Day announcement last year that he would issue an executive order to allow short-term positive visitors, though only Congress can repeal the law.   

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